And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.

That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.

A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.